Maybe T-Mobile should’ve saved its jabs at AT&T and Verizon for later.
T-Mobile’s long awaited satellite services — powered by SpaceX’s Starlink network — went live yesterday, with the carrier making fun of “rivals” scrambling to catch up. In an ironic twist of fate, however, the Starlink network suffered a very rare, major outage mere hours after the rollout of T-Mobile’s new claim to fame.
Experts are assuming that this was due to a bad software update, a claim that is backed up by Starlink’s own admission of key software components encountering a failure. Elon Musk also took to his platform — X, formerly Twitter — to promise that this issue would be addressed soon and will not happen again.
The outage lasted for approximately 2.5 hours, during which tens of thousands of users were affected across the globe.
